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Gun Control & RKBA

discntnt_irny_srcsm

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9. If discovery proceeds...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 05:23 PM

Apr 2016

...(and that's a bit of an if) the most that will be changed is how companies market. Imagine the marketing analogy to certain assault weapons bans. It's just the weapons reality.

Weapons are used by criminals to settle their issues with everyone else. Career criminals are after profit often from drugs, sometimes prostitution, now and then by taking your stuff or your cash. Guns are used to facilitate those activities. Cut the profit motive in those markets and violence will drop.

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America Is About to See How Guns Used in Mass Shootings Are Marketed [View all] SecularMotion Apr 2016 OP

odd....my ARs are designed to save lives. ileus Apr 2016 #1

About time. nt flamin lib Apr 2016 #2

The judge's ruling not withstanding... Puha Ekapi Apr 2016 #3

It shouldn't, but you never know. jmg257 Apr 2016 #4

And even then... beevul Apr 2016 #5

You would think. They do make that claim in their 1st Amended complaint. jmg257 Apr 2016 #7

That reminds me of 6 'degrees of kevin Bacon'. N/T beevul Apr 2016 #8

Funny. beevul Apr 2016 #6

If discovery proceeds... discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2016 #9